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This is really what you can call a last minute article since this issue of
aLiVe! is completed and "only" requires assembling and packing before it gets
released but I thought another 25 minutes delay would not be that hard to bear
and I think these intros need be reviewed now and not in two months or so. I'm
going to review _BOTH_ the ST and the Falcon intros in the same article. They
strictly follow the same scenario so the ST intro description should also apply
to the Falcon intro. Some differences will be highlighted a bit further in this
review.
ST intro--------
It all starts with a chip by 505/Checkpoint and a rendered blue background.
Soon the middle section gets filled up with an horizontal scrolling text coming
from the right side of the screen and reading "Have you ever felt... sometimes
the future is the past"... This sentence and the following ones naturally refer
to the great Error In Line party held in 1999 and... damm it !! Yeah I wish the
coming party will be as great as the previous one ! These sentences come from
the right then from the left, merging somewhere in the middle and generating a
bright blurring effect. Hard to describe it looks like an fx from the endscreen
of Madness by Cream and that is _really_ stylish. Have a look at the following
snapshot (note that original colors are STe though) :

After this poetic introductions, we are offered scanned photos shot at Error
In Line. You will surely recognize fellows from Checkpoint, Escape, Reservoir
Gods, FUN, Sector One, Mind Design, Paranoia, Wildfire (gosh they even have an
ugly picture of me :). All these blue/grey scaled pictures flood in until the
screen cannot take it anymore. Then we move to the final part.
This last screen features the original error in line logo on top and at the
bottom of the screen (displayed in 4 colors tho) while a mapped EIL logo keeps
rotating in the middle of the screen. Shortly after the now usual one plan
vertical scroller pops in. Read through it using arrow keys and press space to
exit once you're finished. Btw it looks like this :

Falcon intro------------
As said before all the fx mentioned above can be found in the Falcon intro
BUT... there are some differences : first this intro features a soundtrack by
505/Checkpoint (the ST msx being a chip convertion of that same tune) and I
must confess this module really sounds great, much better than the chip on ST.
Then it shows much more colours ! All fx and backgrounds use quite a number of
colors actually and colored pictures appeal a lot more than grey scaled ones.
Last but not least, this time on a technical point of view, the light fx and
mapped logo look much better on Falcon.
Last words : this is the first time - I think - that the St and the Falcon
get mirrored intros, meaning the same fx, scenario, msx... Of course it looks
better and faster on Falcon but the ST intro does it perfectly ! Above all,
these intros should remind eil partygoers of the incredible fun we shared in
Dresden ! Need I say more ? Visit http://eil.atari.org for the latest news !
Gosh I almost forgot to give credit to Evil/DHS who coded both intros and
also provided me with these snapshots.
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